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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his estimate of the number of additional children who will benefit from the continued expansion of the national childcare scheme announced in Budget 2025, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40606/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent characterisation by the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary of Russia as a ‘mafia state’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomatic staff currently accredited to the Russian embassy in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40316/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full year cost of all home energy upgrades supports and schemes in 2024 and 2025; and the annual current and capital funding breakdown per scheme divided between Exchequer funding and carbon tax receipts, including schemes (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated annual cost of introducing loans (details supplied). [40867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated annual cost of a scheme (details supplied). [40868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline any analysis carried out by his Department, consultancy or State body, relating to the energy poverty action strategy and enabling smart energy service providers to divert surplus renewable energy to Irish homes, with a primary focus on those in fuel poverty or those in social housing; and to provide any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total operating cost of town councils during their final full year of operation. [40823/24]

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I commend the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, on bringing forward this legislation into these sittings of the Oireachtas. It may be recalled that on 20 March this year, I introduced the Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024. It sought, in effect, to do exactly the same as the Minister is seeking to do in this legislation. Obviously, I am...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Budgets (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 18 September 2024, if his Department has made any projections of its likely required budget out to 2029 especially in the context of reaching LOA2, as set out in the capability framework devised by the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if so, whether he will provide the details of same; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of giving a free heritage card, which currently costs €30 for access to all OPW sites, for those aged 60 and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget allocation to the IDA in each year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; the proposed allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42300/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget allocation to Enterprise Ireland in each year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; the proposed allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42301/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of the expenditure on new school buildings, and the refurbishment of existing buildings, since 27 June 2020; the number of projects completed; the number of projects currently in construction; the number of projects currently in design, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42294/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the refuge units delivered by her Department since 2020, and to provide in tabular form the cost of each unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42254/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the cost of delivering 150 more refuge units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42258/24]